Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Benjamin Weisenthal

Orthopaedic Surgery Knoxville, TN Medical Doctor

NPI 1487041661 CMS profile 1376461

260 Fort Sanders West Blvd, Suite 900, Knoxville, TN 37922

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General payments

$52,342

143 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Benjamin Weisenthal of Knoxville, TN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $52,342 across 143 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 89th percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $14,499 18
2024 General $15,334 42
2023 General $8,902 12
2022 General $5,252 7
2021 General $5,571 40
2020 General $525 11
2019 General $2,259 13

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Benjamin Weisenthal
  • Orthopaedic Surgery median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Benjamin Weisenthal were reported at $14,499. Among 15,343 Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $563 and the middle half received between $147 and $2,717.

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Year Benjamin Weisenthal Orthopaedic Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $2,259 $644 $140–$2,844 $163
2020 $525 $312 $75–$1,860 $114
2021 $5,571 $520 $117–$2,495 $132
2022 $5,252 $598 $128–$2,731 $149
2023 $8,902 $461 $128–$2,264 $160
2024 $15,334 $497 $134–$2,475 $164
2025 $14,499 $563 $147–$2,717 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Choice Spine, LLC $39,487 21 payments
  2. NuVasive, Inc. $3,179 28 payments
  3. Medtronic USA, Inc. $2,260 12 payments
  4. Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC $2,005 13 payments
  5. Stryker Corporation $1,878 9 payments
  6. Medtronic, Inc. $1,047 17 payments
  7. Arthrex, Inc. $975 19 payments
  8. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $362 5 payments
  9. Carlsmed, Inc. $284 4 payments
  10. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $187 2 payments
  11. Other $678 13 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $29,700 12 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $11,054 24 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $6,268 103 payments
  4. Education $5,320 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems $22,754 10 payments
  2. Stratofuse $21,307 10 payments
  3. BLACKHAWK CERVICAL SPACER SYSTEM $21,198 9 payments
  4. VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System $20,504 8 payments
  5. TRITON $15,554 6 payments
  6. HARRIER-SA LUMBAR INTERBODY SYSTEM Spinal Implant $5,645 3 payments
  7. BOOMERANG $5,645 3 payments
  8. TIGERSHARK C $5,645 3 payments
  9. HARRIER-SA LUMBAR INTERBODY SYSTEM Spinal Implant $4,950 3 payments
  10. Lancer Pedicle Screw System $4,500 2 payments
  11. Other $16,889 106 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 10 drugs

Part D claims

414

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$4,481

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

17.9%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Naloxone Hcl Generic 34 $2,074
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 47 $698
Methocarbamol Generic 94 $526
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 70 $464
Prednisone Generic 70 $228
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 16 $195
Gabapentin Generic 41 $138
Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim Brand 11 $87
Meloxicam Generic 20 $40
Tramadol Hcl Generic 11 $30

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 71 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$208,557

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

536

Average age 74

Services billed

1,816

306 women, 230 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Ischemic heart disease 27%
Diabetes 26%
Depression 25%
Chronic kidney disease 23%
Osteoporosis 20%
Atrial fibrillation 18%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

143 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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